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The importance of a good breathing habit
A healthy breathing pattern moves oxygen through the body, to our brain, all our organs, and cells. The practice of active and mindful breathing from our abdomen hold profound benefits. Our breath helps us to ground, and activate heart coherence. Our breath supports us in releasing stress, can balance and harmonize our life force energy, and activate healing within.
Let’s explore the breath further and practice together.
Activating a Healthy Breath
The following practices have shown over the years to be the core foundation of self care alchemy. When we activate our core energy body, by activating your breath, heart energy and grounding practice, we feel a sense of stability, lightness while feeling grounded within a stillness, and sensation of peace within our heart.
Our inner stillness becomes the vortex of greater expansion and acces to the Quantum consciousness of all that is. I hope the information and practices can support you in expanding your light body, optimizing your life force energy and well- being within life.
Various Breathing Patterns
Torus Breathing
Torus breathing is a gentle way of activating your life force energy and expanding your entire energy field. When we activate Torus breathing daily, we start to increase the relationship and communication we have with our entire energy body. Besides expansion and alignment, Torus breathing also supports us in feeling into the energy that wants to be released, the energy that does not serve us, and supports us in releasing this energy from our entire system. Torus breathing can develop and expand continuously throughout your practice and inner journey.
When you activate your breath, you activate your life force energy
- Activate your breath every time you notice you are breathing shallow or are holding your breath.
- Create little notes placed in every room, to remember to activate your breath.
- Set reminders in your phone to activate a deep breathing pattern.
- Do this for a couple of days or weeks, until you remember, and notice that you take better quality breaths throughout your days.
The HeartMath Institute in California has discovered that we create a coherent heart when we practice deep breathing for 3 times daily, for 5 minutes. When our heart is in coherence, we activate deep healing within, and hold this magnetic field for people and animals around us to entrain to and become coherent. Read more about heart coherence in the next section.
Breathing practices can anchor and center us throughout our day
Practice this core foundation breath, every time you remember throughout your day:
- Getting in touch with the space underneath your bellybutton.
- Letting your breath rise all the way to your crown on your inhale.
- Letting your breath sink down your spine, releasing out of your tailbone.
- Allowing your tailbone to become a third anchor with the Earth.
At first this breathing practice is a visualization, connected with your breath.
Overtime with practice this breath connected to your visualization becomes a physical sensation.
You will notice that you have control over your breath, and that your breath has the power to move, release, and activate energy within your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy body.
Our breath is the most important tool that we have
- Our breath activates and optimizes our life force energy.
- Our breath supports us when we want to calm our nervous system and mind.
- Our breath supports us when we desire to align with our soul’s essence.
- Our breath assists us when we want to align with any activity.
- Our breath can offer us more energy than coffee and doesn’t give you a dip.
- Our breath helps us to release any energy that doesn’t serve us.
- Our breath can support and calm the nervous system of people and animals around us.
- Our breath releases energy accumulated from our daily life, energy from the past, and even can support us in releasing generational energy imprints.
Can you come up with more positive benefits of conscious breathing?
Experiment with various breathing patterns
Make yourself comfortable, sitting or lying down. If you experience any light-headedness, immediately go back to a comfortable calm breath, and observe if you need any assistance.
Notice the sensations these different breathing patterns activate within you. Notice the areas within your physical body where you feel tension or any restriction. Gently breathe into those areas and visualize the tissue relaxing and letting go.
Practice the following breathing patterns to activate your life force energy:
- Anchoring breath: bellybutton> crown> spine> tailbone
- 4-4-4-4 breath
- 2-4 breath
- 1-6 breath
- Fire breath
I invite you to practice with me right now
Place your left hand on your chest and your right hand on your abdomen. Breathe deeply through your nose. You will feel your lungs stretch. Hold your breath for a couple of seconds, followed by an out-breath through your mouth. Repeat this process for approximately 10 minutes. During this exercise put your focus only and entirely on your breath. Feel how your body relaxes and releases tension with every deep breath you take. Try to immediately let go of thoughts that might flow in, and return your focus on your breath. Use a positive affirmation or mantra if desired to calm the mind. Practice this and other breathing techniques that are preferred by you, and you will experience the profound benefits of being able to calm yourself down via your own breath, at any moment in time, and in any given location. Become mindful with your breath. Learn, and experiment with variations of breathing techniques. Find what you and your body are most comfortable with, they all serve different purposes as well as benefits.
- A quick way of calming ourselves at any moment in time is by breathing in for 4 seconds, hold! your breath for 4 seconds, and breathe out for 4 seconds. Do this while you are waiting in line, or when sensing emotions of frustration or anger coming up, or when you are trying to fall a sleep. There are many situations where you could use some instant relief and mindfulness. Give your breath a try, your lungs are always with you and waiting to be used to gain more energy!
- Another breathing practice is to breathe for the length of 4 seconds in and for the length of 4 seconds out through a deep abdomen breathing through your nose. Do this for a minimum of 5 minutes per practice.
- Variations are practising a breath of 5 seconds in, and for 5 seconds out. For 6 seconds in, and 6 seconds out. 6-2, 1-4, fire-breath and many more. Explore and find what works for you!